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All results from a given calculation for HCOOHH2O (Formic acid water dimer)

using model chemistry: B3LYP/3-21G

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C1 1A
Energy calculated at B3LYP/3-21G
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-264.718539
Energy at 298.15K-264.724391
Counterpoise corrected energy-264.695781
CP Energy at 298.15K-264.700971
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy126.789697
The energy at 298.15K was derived from the energy at 0K and an integrated heat capacity that used the calculated vibrational frequencies.
Vibrational Frequencies calculated at B3LYP/3-21G
Mode Number Symmetry Frequency
(cm-1)
Scaled Frequency
(cm-1)
IR Intensities
(km mol-1)
Raman Act
4/u)
Dep P Dep U
1 A 3559 3434 19.60      
2 A 3104 2995 4.84      
3 A 3054 2947 639.06      
4 A 2373 2289 869.07      
5 A 1768 1706 142.98      
6 A 1690 1631 167.38      
7 A 1530 1477 81.56      
8 A 1403 1354 28.41      
9 A 1275 1230 187.75      
10 A 1236 1192 128.71      
11 A 1065 1027 3.15      
12 A 974 940 454.88      
13 A 737 711 5.09      
14 A 529 511 73.92      
15 A 430 415 24.32      
16 A 392 378 160.01      
17 A 290 280 5.10      
18 A 267 257 31.83      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12837.6 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9649) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12387.0 cm-1
See section III.C.1 List or set vibrational scaling factors to change the scale factors used here.
See section III.C.2 Calculate a vibrational scaling factor for a given set of molecules to determine the least squares best scaling factor.
Rotational Constants (cm-1) from geometry optimized at B3LYP/3-21G
ABC
0.38174 0.19808 0.13182

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at B3LYP/3-21G

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 0.585 0.912 -0.055
O2 -0.461 1.152 -0.003
O3 1.727 -0.036 -0.092
C4 -1.138 0.003 0.022
O5 -0.623 -1.137 -0.003
H6 -2.218 0.157 0.068
H7 2.255 -0.096 0.747
H8 1.062 -0.816 -0.107

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 C4 O5 H6 H7 H8
H11.07401.48521.94902.37912.90492.10911.7930
O21.07402.49161.33412.29532.02043.08152.4905
O31.48522.49162.86742.59683.95300.99241.0248
C41.94901.33412.86741.25121.09213.47052.3506
O52.37912.29532.59681.25122.05533.15091.7186
H62.90492.02043.95301.09212.05534.53083.4255
H72.10913.08150.99243.47053.15094.53081.6339
H81.79302.49051.02482.35061.71863.42551.6339

picture of Formic acid water dimer state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 O2 C4 107.574 H1 O3 H7 115.260
H1 O3 H8 89.227 O2 H1 O3 153.246
O2 C4 O5 125.170 O2 C4 H6 112.381
O5 C4 H6 122.448 H7 O3 H8 108.184
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at B3LYP/3-21G Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.377      
2 O -0.567      
3 O -0.655      
4 C 0.418      
5 O -0.501      
6 H 0.212      
7 H 0.354      
8 H 0.363      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.819 -0.125 1.605 1.806
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -18.621 -1.232 3.786
y -1.232 -27.774 -0.076
z 3.786 -0.076 -22.162
Traceless
 xyz
x 6.347 -1.232 3.786
y -1.232 -7.383 -0.076
z 3.786 -0.076 1.036
Polar
3z2-r22.071
x2-y29.154
xy-1.232
xz3.786
yz-0.076


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 4.167 -0.121 0.343
y -0.121 3.275 -0.013
z 0.343 -0.013 1.453


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 85.338
(<r2>)1/2 9.238